{"id":438932,"date":"2021-09-29T08:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T02:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=438932"},"modified":"2021-09-29T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T03:10:00","slug":"global-energy-crunch-china-expands-power-curbs-to-20-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/global-energy-crunch-china-expands-power-curbs-to-20-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Global energy crunch: China expands power curbs to 20 provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s second-biggest economy is caught in the grips of a widening power crisis that\u2019s threatening to stymie growth and further tangle already snarled global supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>At least 20 Chinese provinces and regions making up more than 66 per cent of the country\u2019s gross domestic product have announced some form of power cuts, mostly targeted at heavy industrial users. The reasons are two-fold \u2014 record high coal prices are causing power generators to trim output despite soaring demand, while some areas have pro-actively halted electricity flows to meet emissions and energy intensity goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s second-biggest economy is caught in the grips of a widening power crisis that\u2019s threatening to stymie growth and further tangle already snarled global supply chains. At least 20 Chinese provinces and regions making up more than 66 per cent of the country\u2019s gross domestic product have announced some form of power cuts, mostly targeted at heavy industrial users. The reasons are two-fold \u2014 record high coal prices are causing power generators to trim output despite soaring demand, while some areas have pro-actively halted electricity flows to meet emissions and energy intensity goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}